Explicit Language - Beware

A few months back, my mom was watching my oldest sisters kids (Teresa). While babysitting, my mom asked Austin (my nephew) to clean up something. A little while later, my mom and 3 year old niece, Kennedy, found that Austin hadn't put away all of this things. Kennedy said "Austin's a butthole of doing that." This obviously caught my mom off guard coming from Kennedy and tried to keep a straight face while telling her she shouldn't talk like that.

Since hearing that story, Deni and I have joked around by saying substituting "butthole" with BH. So we say "You're a BH for doing that!" We used BH because we didn't think the kids would catch on. Not too long after we started saying it, Ryan caught on and figured out what BH stood for.

Fast forward to last night. We were trying to go out to Wal-Mart as a family and I was teasing Deni (as I normally do) because she was taking too long to get ready. Out of the blue, Sydney said "Dad, you're a BH." Deni and I both started laughing.

Time to start drinking and smoking

During church today, our Bishop announced that next week a new Bishop would be sustained in our ward.

No time like the current to start breaking the word of wisdom, right?

Deni's new haircut

I finally found the battery charger and charged the camera battery. As promised her is my beautiful brides new haircut.

No power - only fuzz

The other night, after helping put the kids to bed, I went through my normal routine.

Go to my bedroom -check
Turn on the TV - check.... uh wait a second, no power.
Try again to turn on the TV - still no power. Being a troubleshooter by trade, I checked the obvious things first. Yep, just as I thought, it had been unplugged. I plugged it back in. Now the power button. Nothing but fuzz. Hmmm that's odd. Maybe the kids had accidentally turned it to some random channel, so I changed the channel and I still got fuzz. Hmm. Next I looked around the back of the TV surprisingly enough the cable had been undone.

Just about this time, Deni came walking into the bedroom with a grin on her face.

I guess my nights of watching TV in my bed are over. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Wrong kind of change

Last week in my post Make All you Can... I said life was good.

I even thanked President-Elect Obama for the meager 4.3% "change"/increase in my 401k in the Month of October.

Well - I take it all back.

Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 11/11/2008 is -41.7%

Maybe Obama's slogan of "Change we can believe in" was really his economic plan and all I'll have left in my 401k will be a three quarters, 2 nickels and a dime. Ha.

Don't take me too seriously on the Obama joke. I'm just having fun. Personally, I don't think that any President has the power to effect the economy. But they sure take credit when it's going well and sure are quick to blame others when it tanks.

I have to keep telling myself, I'm in this for the long term, I'm in this for the long term, I'm in this for the long term. I'm still trying to convince myself of this.

Why would I be mad?

5 minutes before I leave work for the day, I get this txt to my phone from Deni.

Don't be mad. I cut my hair :-|

First of all. I'm not sure why I would be mad. Especially about something Deni wanted to do.

I immediately tried calling Deni's cell but she didn't answer. Next I tried calling the house - and Sydney answered the phone and finally persuaded Sydney to let me talk to Deni.

For the record. Deni has a very cute haircut. My guess is that she cut at least 8 inches off. I'll have to get a picture of the new cut.

Picasa 3.0 for Linux - way cool.

I gave up on Windows along time ago. For the most part, there are comparable applications on Linux. One that I've been missing is Picasa. But just recently found a beta for Picasa 3.0 for Linux - way cool.

From Our Kids

Make all you can......

Life is good. I'm up 4.3% in my 401k in the last month.

01/01/2008 to 10/09/2008 is -39.2%.

01/01/2008 to 11/04/2008 is -34.9%

I'm sure President Obama will take credit for it, so I better give credit where credit is due. Thank you President Obama.(grin)

Fishing at Maple Lake

This morning, both the kids wanted to play with someone, so I let them go out and play with their friends. Sydney couldn't find anyone home. Ryan played for a while, but then came home. They wanted to do something outside as it was a beautiful day outside, so I suggested that we go fishing at Maple Lake, up Payson Canyon. Deni was at a Boy Scout Training up Payson Canyon and we had to pick her up, so it was good timing, although we went fishing before we picked up Deni. Although Deni would have loved to be there fishing with us (just as long as I put the worms on for her.)

We fished for about 2 hours. We didn't have any luck for the first 1.5 hours.

Sydney fishing at Maple Lake



Ryan fishing at Maple Lake



Although it was a beautiful day outside, it was a little chilli in the shade. We moved places but still no luck.



I decided to try changing the lure on one of the poles after 1.5 hrs of no luck. First cast, I caught a fish. I released it. I thought, I wonder if I can do that again. I cast out in the same place and on my 2nd cast, I caught a second fish. This time once I knew it was hooked, I let the line go and let the fish take the line out then allowed Sydney to reel it in. I had hooked the fish through the mouth and in the eye. I tried to get the hook out without hurting it but one of it's eyes came out with the hook. We kept it, but offered it to a Hispanic family that appeared to be fishing for dinner, not just for fun.

After our fishing, we headed down the canyon to Camp Maple Dell to pick up Deni. We were about an hour early, so sat in the car. Ryan was finishing up the second book of Fablehaven and would giggle every few minutes, which was fun to hear.

Pumpkins

Like last year we grew pumpkins in our garden again. We got 6 small ones this year.

We enjoyed carving the pumpkins tonight as a family. The kids have been looking forward to doing this since we picked them a few weeks ago.

I'm not into technical pumpkin carving, although it looks really cool when it is finished. I'm into carving what the kids draw on the front. Although one of these is mine and one is Deni's.

I think I had more fun taking these pictures than carving the pumpkins.

I'm not sure Sydney changed her face in these 8 pictures.